And EVs make some problems worse, such as tire dust because they're heavier than an equivalent ICE car.
If people really cared about this, they'd demand train-based public transport instead (no tires! fully electric! self-driving too!), or at very least limits on car weight regardless of the engine.
A mix of solutions will be needed to fix the variety of different and unique problems that exist.
Have you used bus systems in the US? Even in cities that have made a large investment in bus service, it can be a challenge.
An amazing claim.
My EV cost $13k and was fairly new at purchase.
This is especially a problem in enclosed spaces with limited ventilation: on parts of the London Underground, air pollution in the tunnels can be many times worse than on the streets above.
EVs aren’t going to be the savior of climate change. They do some things better than ICE cars, but do some things worse. Denying those worse things is just putting your fingers in your ears.
Having said this, if you can go 70k+ miles with the same brake pads, you could likely go much further than that if the car had regenerative braking.
Some people of course drive their EVs aggressively and wear out the tires faster. But that's true if you have a muscle car too. Doing donuts in the parking lot just wears out your tires. And if you are in Germany and like seeing how fast your car can go regularly that also wears out your tires. The driving style is a much bigger factor than the weight of the car.
But otherwise the numbers are about the same for ice cars and evs in terms of frequency of needing tire replacements. For most people the novelty of abusing their tires wears of quickly.
And because most EVs use regenerative braking, the main issue with the brakes in EVs is that they are used so infrequently that they need to be replaced because of corrosion issues. You actually need to use the brakes once in a while to keep them clean and functioning apparently.
What EV’s produce more of is tire particulates due to weight.
PS: And now the post says tires.
I thought the post had changed, but I wasn't 100%
Though to be fair, the tires on my previous ICE vehicle only lasted about 30,000 miles before they needed to be replaced, OEM car tires are often not long lasting. Brake fluid is due to be flushed next year, but not due to use of the brakes, just due to time.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-magnet-man-alex-ben...
That 20K set of tires had a slow leak from a nail that was patched incompletely. On the new set I had to replace two using the hazard insurance I purchased after three months and two thousand miles. I expect to use the insurance again.
I now have an EV with sport summer tires. They’re at 5K miles and have a screw embedded in one tire since about 400 miles. That tire was deemed to be safe and best left alone as it’s presumed to be running through a rubber block only. I’m just running it until it goes flat assuming it doesn’t manage to survive its whole expected life span.
Realistically I’ll end up running something else over this spring once construction gets into full swing.
Probably accurate if you exclude the brakes and ignore the fact that removing an ICE engine from consideration also removes nearly all the tricky bits that wear out on an ICE car.